1949 Château Talbot

Community Tasting Notes (9) Median Score: 93 points

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  9/1/2023 - englishman's claret wrote:

  The nose is certainly 49 St Julien in character with an effusive raspberry, red cherry profile, complemented by warm cedar, a little game, and loam. The palate is curiously tannic and attenuated with noticeable brett. This was (osteonsibly) a chateau recorked bottle and I can’t say I like the practice - it usually is only needed on bottles that haven’t fared too well to begin with and it seems to deprive them of something. Accordingly, no score but a nice example of a mature Talbot, even if the fireworks that you expect from this estate in this era aren’t quite there.

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  9/21/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 75 Points

  At least this particular bottle has developed strong balsamic scents that almost overwhelmed the remain, tobacco, cigar box, cedar, leather and lead pencil notes. Not much fruit remained, as the wine has shifted to the sharper, brighter, acidic side of the tart, red berry range. Perhaps larger formats will show better, but this is a risky bottle to purchase today.

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  2/8/2018 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points

  1959 dinner. Deep purple core and still carrying fruit on palate. Lipstick finish.

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  1/28/2018 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Gorgeous, amazing! with a deep core of dark red fruit, spice cake, and tobacco box, so beautiful and so mature, yet giving so much. 98

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  1/28/2018 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 99 Points

  You can tell the instant this hits the palate that it's going to be a great one, then you toss it around in your mouth for two seconds and - boom! - suddenly it pops with even more goodness. The way that second wave hits with so much additional material when you were impressed enough with the wine already was bona fide astonishing. It made me physically giddy. The initial impression was already impressively rich, very thick in material with crimson-toned fruit and a brothy savor. The second wave kicks it up a notch or ten with deeper, midnight-black flavors, not so much in the fruit department as this is evolved and in the primetime zone of maturity, but the sort of indescribable flavors that can't come from anywhere except decades of of comfortable aging which are all so balled up together in that mushroom cloud of intense flavor that I can't put my finger on any one of them. All I can say is that this is a wine that started out stunning and somehow got even better from there.

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